The Sweet Sixteen

[Rita]

Another recap of the Cornell-Kentucky game was on Saturday's (3/27/2010) Only a Game.

[Trotsky]

If Bill Littlefield and Peter Sagal were fired at each other inside the Large Hadron Collider, the generation of anti-affectation particles would destroy the universe.

[David Harding]

In the Ithaca Journal

Noel also said that Cornell's success has raised an interesting question with regards to what the Ivy League will do with the money Cornell earned by playing three games in the NCAA tournament. It had been 12 years since an Ivy team played multiple games at the Big Dance.

To recap, Noel said the university presidents voted years ago to take the yearly NCAA participation sum (Noel called it "a unit" ) and inject the whole amount into the base budget of the Ivy League office. The tournament representative (which has been Cornell for three years running) sees none of that money directly. Because the Ivy is granted an automatic tournament berth each year, the Ivy League office has always been able to count on that sum being available to them. That sum this year is $220,000 per game paid annually over a six-year span.

Since Cornell played three games, it garnered the Ivy League a $660,000 pay check each of the next six years. Noel said he hopes that when the question of what to do with the extra $440,000 is addressed by the league office, Cornell will garner some consideration for its role in the matter.